Lambert's replacement

[silhillvilla]

For me it needs to be a name , fairly high profile , someone who will lift and motivate what is quite frankly a half decent squad full of international players .
For me that generates a short list of -

Klinsmann
Rijkaard
Rafa Benitez
De Bouer
& possibly Claudio Ranieri

I don't know if you did that in order of preference or not but if you did I agree with your top three.

Yes it's done by preference in effect.

[cdbearsfan]

Sherwood's name should not even be being mentioned .

Shhhhhhhhhhhherwood

[ktvillan]

One of Randy's biggest failings is ignoring the wider Villa family. There are a lot of prominent ex-players and managers who love the club and are hurting right now because of recent events. Fox, if not Randy would be well served to have some conversations with some of them about his next, very critical steps.

I couldn't disagree more.  Footballers and ex-footballers don't tend to be the brightest sparks and, as Peter Withe has already shown, have a tendency to trot out the same old lazy cliches about who should be manager.  So you get all that shite about having a connection or affinity with the club, someone the fans know, having a passion for it.  It's typical of the closed and narrow thinking within British football mindsets. And it's utter bollocks.  We simply need someone who has displayed an ability to motivate players, to apply varying tactics to suit the situation, to  sign some good prospects, to make the most of players he's got and to win more games than he loses.  Oh and someone who is not incredibly dour and Scottish. It shouldn't matter a jot if he's from another planet and has never heard of Aston Villa. It aint rocket science.

[glinch]

Sherwood would be a disaster

[eric woolban woolban]

Sherwood's name should not even be being mentioned .

Unless it says, Sherwood is out of the running.

[supertom]

Sherwood's name should not even be being mentioned .

Not really. Under the current regime I wouldn't expect much better sadly. Unless there's the potential for a sale brewing that might tempt a Klinsmann here, akin to when O Neill signed up under Doug, undoubtedly aware a rich American was shortly due to buy the club.

[brontebilly]

Sherwood's name should not even be being mentioned .

Not really. Under the current regime I wouldn't expect much better sadly. Unless there's the potential for a sale brewing that might tempt a Klinsmann here, akin to when O Neill signed up under Doug, undoubtedly aware a rich American was shortly due to buy the club.

I think Klinsmann is more a 50/1 shot. Leaving the OC for Birmingham isnt realistic

[Holte L2]

I'll be really pissed off if it's Sherwood. 

[berneboy]

It is obvious that it should be Neil Warnock. He's a nice chap. And available.

[supertom]

I can see Randy doing something daft and going for Harry "ouch me old knees giving me jip" Redknapp.
That would rank as more unpopular than McLeish probably.

[lovejoy]

Randy has been crap at picking managers so this is a risk. I'd have Redknapp over Warnock, Sherwood or Hoddle though. Can't see it.

[hilts_coolerking]

Sherwood had a 59% win ratio down Spurs? He can be the biggest tw+t of them all if he manages to get that ratio here.

Some bright spark on VT pointed out that, given how few games he actually managed, if you turn just three wins into draws that win percentage goes down by 12% or something (someone mathematically literate check this, as I have no idea). His loss percentage was also high, at 37%.

To use the current H&V buzzword that sounds a lot like whataboutery.  Okay you may not think much of Sherwood, and neither do I, but in the time he was given at Spurs he basically did pretty well.

[Walmley_Villa]

I don't think Randy is picking anyone, Fox is in control these days. I think he sees himself as a Daniel Levy type figure, hence the sacking by phone. Levy went for Sherwood, don't be surprised if Fox does the same.

[silhillvilla]

No he didn't .

[RossLeach]

What's Terry Venables doing?